Loraine Lawson

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Data lakes may be controversial among technologists, but for many companies, they solve a pressing technology problem: bad data integration. Andrew Oliver, president and founder of Open Software Integrators, has helped large companies build data lakes. While there is debate about what data lakes are and whether they’re even practical […]

Data governance is one of the tougher nuts to crack when it comes to managing enterprise data. It requires business users who are vested in data, but often, governance and data quality work is “tacked on” in addition to other responsibilities. At the same time, governance also can be heavily technical, which requires IT involvement. […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps Here’s an odd economic indicator for you: Sales of master data management for product data grew only 8.7 percent last year. By comparison, MDM for customer data grew 12.2 percent. That’s more than a 2 percent difference favoring customer data MDM, which suggests, according to Gartner’s market data, […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence For decades, the choice has been among relational databases from a variety of vendors, but that era is ending, argues Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem. Relational databases are no longer the default choice. Instead, Eifrem says, your data management choice will hinge on one question: What is […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps This morning, Ronen Schwartz, vice president and general manager for Informatica Cloud, was on his way to AWS’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, where he was confident that the integration company would find new customers today. He had good reason for his confidence: Informatica planned to announce expansions […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps Data services as an up-selling tactic and add-on product will become a mainstream trend next year, according to Forrester Research. It’s just one aspect of what the research firm calls the emerging “data economy.” We’re already seeing the beginning of a data economy, Forrester contends in a recent […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps There are signs that crowdsourcing is becoming a legitimate data strategy. What remains unclear, though, is whether it’s a reliable one. One crowdsourcing project, PredictIt.org, illustrates the issues at play. PredictIt is an academic project under the auspices of the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, with U.S. […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments Big Data is changing things, and not just because it requires shiny, new solutions such as Hadoop or Apache whatsit-of-the-week. As organizations use and assimilate Big Data, the more obvious it becomes that IT will need to reimagine some old standards in the data toolbox. Why? The […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments On the surface, you’d think Big Data has established itself as a popular and winning proposition for businesses. Consider these recent research findings: Innovative companies are three times as likely to rely on Big Data analytics and data mining than their less-innovative peers. — The Boston Consulting […]

Ten Cool Companies That Are Monetizing IoT and How You Can Too! Energy is one of the more promising applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) data. By now, you’re no doubt familiar with how utilities have used sensors and smart grids to reduce overall energy costs. A recent Intelligent Utility article shows energy use […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off A lot of focus these days has been given to “big money and donors” in political campaigns, but is it possible that the real edge may go to the party that invests in “Big Data?” This is not exactly a new topic: Two years ago, […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps The day is coming when bosses will expect all employees to be “data geeks,” according to a recent survey. SAP commissioned the survey, which asked business decision makers about the use of data visualization tools. Out of 400 surveyed, 86 percent said they believe all company employees will […]